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| * inability to place Eichmann (a German officer who was simply "following orders") under pre-existing "universals" to understand this "normal" person, carrying out the extermination of Jews. | * inability to place Eichmann (a German officer who was simply "following orders") under pre-existing "universals" to understand this "normal" person, carrying out the extermination of Jews. |
| * she needed a new criminal type, to fit what she termed the "banality of evil". | * she needed a new criminal type, to fit what she termed the "banality of evil". |
| * she goes on to think that we have over a long history, considered thinking a specialized activity of a few (perhaps now even [[:AI]]). If thinking is a part of thinking right from wrong, then we must demand it of everyone, as an inner dialogue by stopping and thinking. | * she goes on to think that we have over a long history, considered thinking a specialized activity of a few (perhaps now even [[:AI]]). If thinking is a part of thinking right from wrong, then we must demand it of everyone, as an inner dialogue by stopping and thinking. |
| * drawing on Socrates, the thinking is not towards an answer, but is critical -- always interrogating and disclosing faults, a "resultless enterprise", leaving us with questions and perplexities, not answers. | * drawing on Socrates, the thinking is not towards an answer, but is critical -- always interrogating and disclosing faults, a "resultless enterprise", leaving us with questions and perplexities, not answers. |
| * Quote: "The intrinsically destructive character of all genuine thinking has, according to Arendt, “a liberating effect on another human faculty, the faculty of judgment, which one may call, with some justification, the most political of man’s mental abilities” (TMC, 188). For judgment is liberated only to the extent that we can free ourselves from received opinion and preconceived categories." | * Quote: "The intrinsically destructive character of all genuine thinking has, according to Arendt, “a liberating effect on another human faculty, the faculty of judgment, which one may call, with some justification, the most political of man’s mental abilities” (TMC, 188).** For judgment is liberated only to the extent that we can free ourselves from received opinion and preconceived categories**." |
| * This thinking involves an inner partner, who we converse with. According to Socrates, it is better to be out of tune with other people and society than to be out-of-tune with this inner voice {note: doesn't seem to be a problem for some people} | * This thinking involves an inner partner, who we converse with. According to Socrates, it is better to be out of tune with other people and society than to be out-of-tune with this inner voice {note: doesn't seem to be a problem for some people} |
| * In situations where everyone is swept along by unthinking, this inner self ceases to be marginal and by definition political in terms of a kind of resistance through "action". | * In situations where everyone is swept along by unthinking, this inner self ceases to be marginal and by definition political in terms of a kind of resistance through "action". |
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| readings.Title : | readings.Title : 5 Judging, thinking, and willing,in Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction |
| readings.Authors : | readings.Authors : Villa, Dana |
| readings.Year : | readings.Year : 2023 |
| readings.Link : | readings.Link : https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198806981.003.0005 |
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